# Amputations at OX SPECIALTY PAPER, LLC.
> OSHA SIR `2022032080` · 3/7/2022 · CARTHAGE, NEW YORK
## Severity
- **1 amputation**
- **Body part:** Finger(s), fingernail(s), unspecified
- **Nature of injury:** Amputations
## Cause
- **Event:** Caught in running equipment or machinery, unspecified
- **Source:** Calenders, supercalenders-paper production
## Employer
- **Name:** OX SPECIALTY PAPER, LLC.
- **Location:** 30 Champion Street, CARTHAGE, NEW YORK, 13619
- **NAICS:** 322121
- **Jurisdiction:** 1
## Narrative

An employee was threading a calender stack after a paper sheet break. As the employee plugged the tail into the nip using a threading tool with his right hand, his left hand was caught up in the paper piling up beside him. He suffered partial amputations (through the bone) to the left index finger, middle finger, and ring finger.

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*Source: [OSHA Severe Injury Reports](https://www.osha.gov/severe-injury-reports) · MORVS · CC0 1.0*